stp2015 wrote:By partials do you mean the underlying sine waves? If so, i dont see how that would result in the behavior I get...?
Kind of...Every sound is just a collection of sine waves. The fundamental, and then the added harmonics (in additive synthesis, a harmonic is called a partial). As far as I know, a square wave is a fundamental with all the odd harmonic overtones. A saw is all even & odd harmonics. Since all the partials are panned independently, I'm assuming the partials alternate. So one side is the fundamental and the even harmonics (sounds like saw), other side is odd (sounds like square).
There are quite a few people on this forum that are balls deep in this subject, and know way more about harmonics than I do. Hopefully they can throw a few cents in.